Rambus is seeking royalties and damages from South Korea's Hynix on intellectual property it says is widely used in the $30 billion market for computer memory chips, known as DRAM.

The contract price of polysilicon has soared 80 percent in the last 18 months to $60/kg, and we anticipate further increases to $80/kg in 2006...

The plant is expected to cost $605 million, the report said. The report did not make clear whether the plant would include a wafer fab or would be used for packaging.

In his keynote, Dell took a shot at gaming console makers, unveiling what he said was the world's fastest gaming PC -- with four graphics processors -- and touting his company's growth in the consumer market.

Japan's Sharp will invest about 15 billion yen to boost production capacity for LCD panels by 18%, its president said on Friday, reflecting strong demand for LCD TVs.

LG Group is planning to pump W10 trillion (US$10 billion) into its facilities and research and development programs over the next two years.

The year 2006 will be the year that high definition television (HDTV) outsells analog units in U.S. market, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) forecast Thursday.